Summer 2025 Updates

2025 End-of-Session Events

We appreciate the time you’ve already dedicated to answering the questions on camp’s application focused on each camper’s physical, mental, emotional, and social health – knowing this information allows us to better support your camper this summer.  Please feel free to reach out to either our health or wellness teams if you have any changes to report or updates to share: healthcareteam@clearwatercamp.org or wellnessteam@clearwatercamp.org.

Required Forms
We know we ask you to submit a lot of forms!  While we have tried to consolidate our requests for information as much as possible, we recognize there are lots of forms and we send multiple emails and many reminders.   Keep in mind all of these requests for information are so that we can best support your camper.  Please make an effort to get your forms submitted as you complete them; the more time we have to review your responses, the better prepared we will be (and the fewer reminders you’ll get from us)!

The health and wellness team relies on having access to all information contained in the following required forms:

• Health History
• Physician’s Examination
• Immunization
• Permission to Treat
• Insurance Card
• Consent for Medical Testing

To find your forms: Login to your CampMinder account and click on Forms and Documents. Review and complete any forms listed as “pending” or “incomplete”. Please contact Christy if you have trouble with any forms: christy@clearwatercamp.org or (715) 356-5030.

Prescription Medications 
In an effort to streamline the daily distribution of camper medications, all prescription medications are REQUIRED to be packaged into pill packets through Trig’s Pharmacy (9750 Old Hwy 70, Minocqua, WI 54548 (715-356-9449)). Prescriptions MUST be sent to Trig’s Pharmacy at least one week prior to the start of camp.  Failure to follow this process and meet the one-week deadline will result in a $40 administrative fee.

This will be a simple process:

• Your doctor sends the prescription(s) to Trig’s pharmacy.
• You provide Trig’s pharmacy with your insurance and payment information.
• Trig’s Pharmacy packages your camper’s medication(s) for a nominal cost (between $2.50 and $10 depending on the number of Rx medications).
• Clearwater staff picks up the pill packets before arrival day.

(The only exception to this requirement is if dispensing guidelines for a particular prescription require your camper to bring that medication with them to camp.  In that case, please contact the healthcare team prior to camp arrival at healthcareteam@clearwatercamp.org.)

Vitamins and Supplements 
Campers may not take vitamins and supplements (gummy or otherwise) while at camp. Exceptions would be supplements due to a diagnosed deficiency prescribed by a healthcare provider and filled by the Trig’s pharmacy in a pill packet (e.g., iron, vitamin D, potassium, or magnesium).

Communicable Disease Updates
The health and safety of our campers and staff are a top priority.  Although the COVID pandemic may be behind us, we will continue to monitor for COVID and other communicable illnesses.

The major key to success in keeping communicable illnesses out of camp is to work together to do everything we can to make sure everyone arrives at camp healthy. Please contact camp’s healthcare team for guidance if your camper experiences a fever of 100.4 or higher or has symptoms of illness (fever, chills, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, etc) during this time.

During camp, we will not be testing for COVID or other illnesses unless requested by a camper or counselor. We ask everyone to fill out the permission to test form in the case of emergency care (blood glucose testing) or personal request for testing. If any communicable diseases are discovered while at camp, the healthcare team will work with campers and staff to mitigate spread of illness and communicate with camp leaders to get the necessary information out to families as needed.

Fight the Bite
We are excited to announce that Clearwater has been selected by the Alliance for Camp Health (ACH) to participate in “Fight the Bite” U.S. Tick-Borne + Lyme Disease Initiative. With the generous support of a $153k Grant from SC Johnson, this initiative will extend the reach of Lyme Disease and tick prevention through research, educating for prevention of tick bites, and creating TickWise spaces.

In the first year of the initiative, ACH will work with ten camps in Wisconsin to educate more than three thousand staff in the provision of care, benefiting upwards of 16,000 children. The research obtained and education materials created in the first year of this initiative will be developed in collaboration with medical providers who have an interest and specialization in vector-borne conditions.

As a participant in the initiative, we will share educational resources regarding tick prevention with our camper families and staff as we get closer to summer.  Then, during camp, we will be collecting and submitting anonymous data to the Alliance for Camp Health regarding prevention activities, tick encounters, tick bites, post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), and subsequent treatment if provided.

Our summer team is key to making Clearwater a great experience for our campers!  You can learn more about them when we finalize hiring in the Spring.